We eventually get to the principal subject of Mr. Miller's book, which is that, as WFB summarizes it, "the technology of data collecting is now so advanced ... that we are threatened with the disappearance of the truly private transaction," but we do so by way of a fast-moving exchange on "the right to know, which is, in a sense, the obvious enemy of the right to privacy." How does it all fit in with free speech? How much is mere voyeurism? Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers come into the discussion, as do the New York Times rule, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and lie-detector tests. WFB: "It seems to me that this makes everybody's property everybody else's property, because we are involved in mankind ... Since the ripples from a communication between A and B can very easily affect C, either you do assert the right of A to privacy or you've had it, I think." ARM: "My reaction, which, admittedly, is highly platitudinous, is that there are no absolutes in this business."